| Show A california romance Eo mance our old friend general pope BO so long and favorably known here heie got back from a visit to his fife file friends edg in massachusetts the other day and in conversation with him we gleaned a little life history that is worth repeating pea ting and we give it briefly aa as fol foi follows lowe away nack onek something over 30 years ago mr poye v as aa married to a young lady in Masa when the california fever broke out lie he left his bride brida and started for the new el 1 l dorado with bright anticipations of goon becoming rich and returning to her A regular correspondence pon dence waa was kept up for a while and every mail brought him a loving letter from home aa cal cai ifor nanS up and the anticipated riches richea failed to come como as he expected but ho persevered and labored with an in austry industry that was waa worthy of a reward A couple of years passed and then hla hia troubles ts came A villain who bad lived iwed in his hia town in m massachusetts a se achu went back from california and reported parted ported to his wife that he be had proved d infalt unfaithful faful and was married ain again a in she bho wrote to him to the e fleet rv that at if it he did not corni harals immediately bhe she would obtain a divorce and as ho be did yat yot not bot do so that was the i result and the tho bas has remained unchanged through all the years that flint have havo passed since once that time last last fall lio hlo wever mr pope concluded to visit hia hla relatives in the old home homo and started back about the lat of december Dicou iber arriving at his brothers Lr Ur others othere home ha hs was ou fill prostrated with fever and for bome some time his hia life hung bung by a thread his hia wife still resided in the fame kame town had supported herself in th the o 0 business of a professional nurse she was called in to nurse the el bik blk sik elk k stranger and found in him the man to whom she haj hal ha J plighted h her hor or faith r po ro O iong long on ago through the next bis sis weeks weeks she she cfred for him with a wo mans devotion and when the disease was conquered and strength slowly returned return td the story of the last rast nast past was rehearsed in all itt its particulars and the tho truth showed that tho only crime crim ahad had been in being toa proud froud and hasty liand lland and that thelle thelie the lie lle told by the cowardly villain and too readily believed had made a blank page pae in two lives jives covering a period of more than 25 years yeara but a sensible view of the case was taken and our old friend concluded to lot iet let bygones by gones gonea be bygones by gones A license was plo pio procured cured a minister was called in end and with a select little company of the friends of both parties for witnesses they again pledged them selves mich och to the other until death mr pope started in a few dagg days for lia ira hs home here and in the coming afa h is wife will come to him or ho he will return to massachusetts quincy national |
